Probably not a good idea, at least so all of the writing experts tell us. But why, or why not? I’ve heard it quoted that ‘all novels are autobiographical,’ which makes sense given that any and every line one writes tells much about the writer, no matter what that writer’s intention may have been. Every word you write reveals something about you. But you never have a chance to explain or give your own interpretation to your writing. Once it is out in the world, readers will see in your writing what they wish to see. Even if it is a true event which they would prefer (and you would also have preferred, for that matter) were not true, or a time when you wondered if you yourself might not be some alien artifact merely sent here to record these odd human goings-on, or if you always thought that life might be some gross diabolical experiment, or maybe even just a fun bet, between two or more un-empathetic beings or species. Every word your write will pass through the filter of each and every person who reads those words, and thus be judged according to someone else’s experiences and ways of thinking. From a light-skinned Black child being taunted as ‘white’ by other Black kids, painful for that child, but reduced to whining angst by others, to the fear of a woman that she might be seen as dating across races being turned into mere criticism of interracial dating or marriage. Our experiences and the thoughts and feelings within those events are always subject to interpretation, measurement, being weighed in the balance, and found wanting by others who have not experienced those or similar things. The feeling of lost opportunities when potential and ought-to-have-been alliances turn out to be physical aggressions of the first order, all downgraded to a mere fight. The feeling, when told to take care because your skin is just the right color to get you excluded from every group you have ever even heard of, judged to be simple self-pity. Your desire to explain that not a single human being ever born has a “pure” bloodline, wiped out by those who simply want you to suffer because you are a convenient target, when they are in fact, acting in precise accord with the racists from the other side who also agree that “the races don’t mix.” The irony and the agony of being a human being, when it is all so clearly an exercise in futility, just as the writer of Kohelet, aka Ecclesiastes, said so long ago: “הבל” / “emptiness” -it may all really be emptiness, but we must keep trying, anyway.
Shira
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Horrifyingly enough, even I., our hero, himself, could also be treated as Fancies under the worst of circumstances.
Ann and Anna was so easy to write that I still keep asking myself what is so blooming difficult about this project, Who By Fire, and then I keep remembering that I already knew everything about the Ann and Anna series, because I was using a historical personage with a recorded itinerary, and adding another main character whose voice I knew extraordinarily well, partly based on all of the Victorian era novels I read or listen to because they are available for free, now being in the Public Domain.
, and to my online research notes, and even to old blog posts about my research 
arc interacted with the character arc of her husband, our hero Isaias, from a distance, so it was tricky to show why and how both of them were evolving in their thinking and ways of doing things, and why, when they were reacting to words spoken three years prior to this story timeline.
(Ann and Anna) was so easy to write that I still keep asking myself what is so blooming difficult about this project, Who By Fire, and then I keep remembering that I already knew everything about the Ann and Anna series, because I was using a historical personage with a recorded itinerary, and adding another main character whose voice I knew extraordinarily well, partly based on all of the Victorian era novels I read or listen to because they are available for free, now being in the Public Domain. 
, and to my online research notes, and even to old blog posts about my research 
sort of, but his way of thinking keeps changing on me, and I am having a very difficult time nailing down how he interacts with his two best friends (who were initially meant to be a mentor or advisor type, and a ‘particular friend’ as they used to say back then, or a best friend, who was also a rival for a love interest that has now turned into a cautionary tale subplot protagonist. All of this with old scenes written that now need to be either altered or simply thrown away and rewritten altogether, which is hard to do, given that I am a person who values productivity and hates to see time and effort go to waste (yes, I know that that effort did not go to waste, but it feels like the time I spend writing initial scenes, voice journals, and novel journals, indeed are a waste of time since they do not end up directly in a publishable novel that I can immediately begin querying!!). I think I am starting to realize that Who By Fire is currently biting off just a bit more than my writing skills to this point can chew, and I am itching to go back to Ann & Anna, make that series of posts into a prequel for a novel (especially since several people have called the series “#NovelWorthy” (which I had never heard of, many thanks, ladies) and just take off from there, if a novel based on an already blog-posted (and thus published, which I also did not realize back then serial can be shopped for publication?
Context, Critical Thinking, Continuous Learning: Project Do Better 